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Talk:Essay: Apples and Oranges: The net importer USA is outproducing the net exporters Russia and Saudi Arabia in oil production. The best is yet to come (view source)
Revision as of 18:45, October 12, 2026
, October 12→It's clear where User:Conservative stands on all these issues
:I trust this clarifies matters. [[User:RobSmith|Foghorn Leghorn]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Do normal heterosexuals spend 20 yrs obsessing over gay bars, bathhouses and drag queens?]]</sup> 14:35, October 12, 2026 (EDT)
:I trust this clarifies matters. [[User:RobSmith|Foghorn Leghorn]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|Do normal heterosexuals spend 20 yrs obsessing over gay bars, bathhouses and drag queens?]]</sup> 14:35, October 12, 2026 (EDT)
::No. Russia is a weak major power. Political scientist John Mearsheimer frequently describes Russia as a "declining great power" or explicitly as "the weakest of the three great powers" in the international system (behind the United States and China).[https://www.google.com/search?q=does+john+mearsheimer+call+russia+a+%22weak+major+power%22&oq=does+john+mearsheimer+call+russia+a+%22weak+major+power%22&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8]
::In the long-term, Russia cannot sustain great-power competition because its material base is too small and its institutions too brittle. Russia's GNP is now smaller than Italy's. [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] ([[User talk:Conservative|talk]]) 14:45, October 12, 2026 (EDT)
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